Call for Abstracts

The Scientific Committee of the 16th World Congress on IVF invites you to participate in the scientific program
through the submission of abstracts to be considered for presentation.

Abstract submission deadline extended toMonday, July 18, 2011We are happy to inform you that the deadline for abstract submission has been postponed until July 18, 2011.

General Policies

Abstracts submitted must contain original work that has not been published or submitted for presentation at any national or
international meeting prior to the 16th World Congress on IVF.

Abstracts must be submitted in English.

Abstracts will be considered for oral presentation, unless authors specify "Poster Only" on the submission form.
Abstracts not selected for oral presentation will be considered for poster presentation.

Notifications regarding acceptance/rejection will be emailed to the authors from early July, 2011.

Authors presenting abstracts must be registered participants. Presenters that fail to complete their registration by July 31,
2011 will not be included in the Congress Final Program and Book of Abstracts.

There will be a limit of two abstracts per presenter.

All decisions by the Scientific Committee are final. Dates and times of presentations cannot be changed.

Only abstracts submitted via the website will be accepted; abstracts submitted by fax, post or email will be ignored.

Invited speakers are also required to submit their abstract, brief biography and portrait photo through the following Abstract Submission Page.

Abstract Submission

Please note that authors will receive an email confirmation once the submission process is completed. If you do not receive confirmation, your submission may not have been
received and you are advised to contact the organizer.
Upon submission of your abstract, you will be issued an "Abstract Submission Number", which is required to view, edit, or delete your submitted abstract.
This number is different from the "Registration Number" for conference participation.

Abstract Content & Format

Abstracts must describe the research performed. Only abstracts with the following headings can be considered. Failure to
follow this format will disqualify the abstract.

IntroductionMaterial & Methods

(should be informative and short, stating why the study was conducted)
(indicating the locale, number and type of human subjects, non-human species or material being
studied, the principal procedures, assays, test or treatments performed)

Results

(confirming or refuting the hypothesis, supported by statistics if appropriate);

Conclusions

(stating the major new findings of the study and specifying what these findings add to what is known already).

Oral & Poster Presentation

Abstracts will be considered for oral presentation, unless
authors specify "Poster Only" on the submission form.
Abstracts not selected for oral presentation will be
considered for poster presentation.

a. Oral presentations will be 10 minutes in length followed by 5 minutes of discussion. Only PowerPoint will be supported.
b. Surface areas of the poster boards are 180 cm high x 90 cm wide.

Publication of the Proceedings

The proceedings containing the extended papers of the scientific presentations will be published in order to make the contents of the works presented at 16th World Congress on In Vitro Fertilization accessible to a wider audience.

The proceedings will be sent to be indexed in Conference Proceedings Citation Index by Thomson Reuters, Philadelphia.

The Publisher Medimond - Monduzzi Editore International Proceedings Division will send detailed writing instructions to the authors accepted for presentation at the congress in June 2011.